I was tempted with HTC.

Brantano
Halfords
Hornby

Doomed, they're all doomed, as you Scotch always say.

I'd have gone for RIM if you hadn't already! :-@

Game are already in administration, aren't they? I was going to go with them :(

They were saved last year as far as I know. BUT I have a feeling they will be dead by the end of the year.

Awwwwwww :(

I'm gonna stick my neck out here:

Jessops
Viking Direct
The Royal Family

Bit late for Jessops.

Can't have Jessops, they already gorn.

Oh bugger. I'll have Greece then.

​(I was going to select The Hermitage, a dire restaurant in Folkestone that served me rotten fish and then tasteless venison, but it appears that they also beat me to it!)

Our Price
Rumbelows
Radio Rentals

or

Clinton Cards
Barratts
Peacocks

PYFITG

Any particular reason for Hornby? A fond part of my childhood (original and current). I'd be sad to see them go.

Same here, I commandeered my Dad's shed as a child with a train set - lucky he was into it too.

I fear they're losing ground to the digital alternatives, when you're up against the likes of this, suddenly playing with models loses all appeal. :|

I just figure that the hobby market - model trains not least -are declining fast, and being maintained by an ageing customer base.  I wouldn't want to see them go either.

Perhaps I need to play it, but I just don't understand how a virtual model could come close to the real life model.

*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnAMDg7IVWs

You're probably right, but it was actually my daughters (in particular 5 year old Emily, our Thomas obsessive) that got me back into it.

I think kids like having something tangible, hence the popularity of proper Lego still. Virtual things lack something.

I still prefer real board games. :{)